Now that you know how to create your posts quickly and easily, the next step is to get your content noticed. We already talked about different ways to automatically distribute your content through hundreds different social networking sites.
This distribution alone will give you some web exposure, but if you want to be noticed on the web, this is not nearly enough.
So next logical step after writing and auto-distributing your content is to submit it to dozens of social bookmarking sites and social news sites.
Social bookmarking sites are the online version of the “favorites” bookmarks on your computer. You bookmark all the sites you like, and then store those bookmarks online for the world to see.
Social news sites are similar to other social communities with one big difference – those sites mainly concentrate on news. The examples of social news sites – Stumble Upon, Digg, Reddit, Netscape, Shoutwire, Newsvine, etc.
Why bookmarking your sites with this social bookmarking networks is important?
Well, it’s important for several reasons.
First of all, it will bring you one-way links. And since most of those sites have good page rank and authority, it will immediately boost your site’s rankings.
(You remember the first rule of SEO, right? More incoming links from the sites with established authority = Better PR=Higher SERPs).
Second reason, those submissions will bring you traffic. But this traffic is short-lived in most cases, so just consider it as a bonus that you receive for taking time to bookmark your sites.
Social news sites, on another hand, will bring you considerably more traffic.
Tip: You can tag your submissions with the tags of your choice, and different tag pages might have different pr on the same social bookmarking site, so it’s helpful to research your tags a little for better impact.
Here is a problem. There are hundreds of social bookmarking sites, and if you will submit your posts to them manually, it will eat up too much of your time.
So I will briefly review couple tools that can make bookmarking much easier.
First tool – OnlyWire.com. You go to this site, sign up, and you can simultaneously bookmark your post on 30 or so social networks. All you do is just grab their add-on for Firefox or Internet Explorer, install it, and each time you want to submit a post – just go to your browser and do it in seconds. Instead of spending hours on manual submissions.
Much better, isn’t it? BTW, it’s free, you just need to install their button on your blog in exchange.
Next in line is Bookmarking Demon. Caution: this tool could be used for black-hat SEO as well as white-hat submissions. So if you want to use it in a white-hat way, don’t over-do it.
Why do you want to use it? Well, if you don’t want to manually create accounts on social bookmarking sites, with this tool you can create accounts on over 100 social bookmarking sites with a click of a mouth.
Plus, you can use random logins and different ips through proxy server hence reducing your footprint in social bookmarking networks. And you’re not limited to 1 account per site, you can create as many as you like (but again, be careful).
Another very useful feature of Bookmarking Demon – it submits your new posts automatically to all the social networks. You don’t have to do it manually.
So to re-cap – with Onlywire you can bookmark your post on 30 social bookmarking sites, but first you need to manually create accounts on those sites. And it’s free.
With Bookmarking Demon you can automatically bookmark your post on over 100 social bookmarking networks, and you can create accounts for those networks automatically as well. Plus, you can create unlimited amount of profiles/accounts for each network. One-time fee…
I hope this brief overview helped you to understand bookmarking and provided enough info for you to start your own bookmarking endeavor.
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sargunesh 12.02.09 at 1:27 pm
Hello,
You info is very useful to me, im a beginner in SEO, try to learn lot, do u help me?. Kindly visite my blog for my profile.
is there any other tool for social bookmarking?.
Thanks
webnews 12.10.09 at 7:21 am
Sargunesh, the easiest way for you to learn SEO and Social Media Strategies is to subscribe to my Social Marketing Secrets (sign up box at the top right corner).